Barrie Lee Hall junior

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Barrie Lee Hall junior (born June 30, 1949 in Mansfield , Louisiana , † January 25, 2011 in Houston , Texas ) was an American jazz trumpeter , arranger and orchestra conductor , who became known through his participation in the late Duke Ellington Orchestra .

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Barrie Lee Hall attended high schools in Houston and Mansfield, where he played in school bands; he then studied trumpet and piano at Texas Southern University in Houston. At a festival in 1973 he met Duke Ellington , who brought him into his orchestra. After Ellington's death, he was a soloist in the Ghost Band , conducted by Mercer Ellington, and appeared on a number of albums, including the Grammy- winning Digital Duke . Hall co-produced the album Music Is My Mistress (1989).

After Mercer Ellington's death in 1996, he led the Duke Ellington Orchestra for one year . After that he was occasionally acting on behalf of Paul Mercer Ellington in this role. Otherwise he was musical director of the Liberty Baptist Church in Houston. Due to his proximity to contemporary and traditional gospel music, he also took part in the performance of Ellington's Sacred Concert ; In 2001 he conducted this performance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and a 200-strong choir. Hall also worked as a big band leader in Switzerland, orchestrating and arranging for various Broadway performances such as Sophisticated Ladies , the jazz opera Queenie Pie and the television production The Duke Ellington Special , in which he performed a trumpet / vocal duet in Creole Love Call with the opera singer Kathleen Battle . He also arranged a symphonic version of this Ellington classic, worked as arranger and guest soloist with Gregory Hines , Phyllis Hyman , Melba Moore , the Danish radio big band , and with John Dankworth , Alice Babs ( Far Away Star , 1976), UMO Jazz Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Orchestra.

Discographic notes

Recordings under your own name

  • Duke Ellington Small Band (2006)

Recordings as a soloist and arranger

  • Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington's Third Sacred Concert , In Sweden 1973
  • Mercer Ellington: Continuum , Take The Holiday Train , Hot And Bothered , Digital Duke ,

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Notification of death at Jazzinstitut Darmstadt ( Memento from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Barrie Lee Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mansfield , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2011
Place of death Houston